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WE much regret to record the death of Mr. Alexander Macmillan, one of the founders of this journal. This is not the place to give a long account of his career. We may limit ourselves to the statement that outside the field of scientific workers there were few who possessed a greater sympathy with scientific aims, few who had a keener insight as to the place science should occupy in our national life and in our educational systems. It was the hope that a more favourable condition for the progress of science might be thereby secured that led him to enter warmly into the establishment of this journal in 1869. Mr. Macmillan was born in 1818, and died on Saturday last, at his residence in Portland Place.
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Death of Mr. Alexander Macmillan. Nature 53, 302 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053302a0
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